Grease (1978 film)

Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser in his feature directorial debut, from a screenplay by Bronte Woodard with an adaptation by co-producer Allan Carr, based on the 1971 stage musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. It follows a greaser, Danny Zuko, played by John Travolta, and Sandy Olsson, an Australian transfer student played by Olivia Newton-John, through their summer romance and its aftermath. Released in the United States on June 16, 1978 by Paramount Pictures, it became the highest grossing film of that year and the highest grossing musical film to that point, and its soundtrack album finished 1978 as the second best selling album of the year in the United States, behind only the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, which also starred Travolta. In 2020 Grease was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/